B cell responses to a peptide epitope. X. Epitope selection in a primary response is thermodynamically regulated

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 5615-5625

  Nakra, Pooja ^a   Manivel, Venkatasamy ^a   Vishwakarma, Ram A ^b   Rao, Kanury V S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENICITY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034040016     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.11.5615     Document Type: Article

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